2008 Woodie Awards
MC Hires New Professors for 2008-2009
Kayla Hutzler
Issue date: 8/27/08 Section: News
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Kim Trager will be joining the MC community from Indiana University where she taught classes in three separate departments: The School of Journalism, The Department of Communication and Culture and American Studies.
Having earned a combined doctoral degree in Mass Communications and American Studies from Indiana University and a Master of Arts degree in Media Ecology from NYU, Trager will be teaching in MC's new Communications department, specifically Intro to Mass Communication (Comm. 102) and Intro to Journalism (Comm. 209). She will also be the new advisor for the Quadrangle and teach the three classes required for the Quadrangle Scholarship.
The excitement of joining a new department brought Trager to MC, she said, "Dr. Thom Gencarelli and Provost Dr. Weldon Jackson's enthusiasm about the program was infectious." Trager is married and the proud owner of a Boxer/Mastiff mix, Otis, with whom she has spent the summer exploring Riverdale.
The English department will be receiving three new professors this year, one of them being Adam Koehler. Koehler attended John Carrol University where he earned his BA and Masters in English. He then went to an entirely different school atmosphere, University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a PhD in English with a specialty in Composition and Rhetoric.
Koehler taught First Year Writing and Advanced Composition courses at both colleges. Having decided the big school community of Wisconsin-Madison was not for him, Koehler gladly accepted a job at MC, loving the idea of being back in a small, liberal arts college community.
As Koehler pointed out "After all, I met and married my wife, Stephanie, at John Carroll, so what's not to love about small liberal arts schools?"
Stephanie seems to agree with this opinion and will be teaching College Writing this fall at MC. Along with teaching, the Koehlers and a friend edit a fiction literary magazine called The Avery Anthology that publishes fiction from new and established writers. The couple has spent the summer moving into their new place in Hamilton Heights and taking care of their one-year-old Sebastian who is completely amazed by the subway.
Unfortunately, Koehler says he will not be teaching at MC this fall, he is going to "master walking and running first."